The city issued a permit Dec. 10 for conversion of a closed Winn-Dixie into an Aldi discount grocery store in Girvin Plaza.
M.E. Construction Inc. of Melbourne is renovating the store at 12777 Atlantic Blvd. at a project cost of $810,000.
APD Engineering & Architecture PLLC of Victor, New York, is the architect.
The total site improvement cost is shown as $1.057 million.
Aldi will renovate 21,976 square feet of space at the store, at northeast Atlantic Boulevard and Girvin Road, where Winn-Dixie had operated since at least 1990.
The Shopping Center Group, known as TSCG, is representing the excess space of 26,686 square feet for lease. Kelly Pulignano and Alison Maas with TSCG are the representatives.
The no-frills Aldi stores are smaller than Winn-Dixie and sister brand Harveys Supermarkets.
German grocer Aldi bought Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers Inc., with about 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarkets in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi, as of March 7, 2024.
Less than a year later, a private investment group led by former Southeastern Grocers CEO and President Anthony Hucker announced Feb. 7, 2025, that it bought 170 of those stores as well as the Winn-Dixie liquor store business.
Aldi intends to complete its previously stated conversion plans with a total of about 220 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores, which is expected to conclude in 2027.
Aldi has about 2,400 U.S. stores and said the Southeastern Grocers acquisition was part of a plan to add 800 stores nationwide by 2028 through new openings and store conversions.
The conversions so far appear to be at least doubling Aldi’s presence in Northeast Florida.
At least 13 Southeastern Grocers stores in Northeast Florida have been identified for conversion.